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Start Date: 26-Sep-1972 12:45 PM

End Date: 26-Sep-1972 1:31 PM

Participants:

Nixon, Richard M. (President)Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob")Colson, Charles W.Butterfield, Alexander P.

Recording Device: Oval Office

787-016.mp3

NARA Description:

On September 26, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon, H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman, Charles W. Colson, and Alexander P. Butterfield met in the Oval Office of the White House from 12:45 pm to 1:31 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 787-016 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 787-16

Date: September 26, 1972
Time: 12:45 pm - 1:31 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.

       1972 election
            -Demonstrations
                 -Response to George S. McGovern supporters
                         -The President's forthcoming trip to California
                              -News summary
                              -Advertisements
                              -Robert J. Dole
                              -Ronald W. Reagan
                                 -Charles W. Colson
                                 -Clark MacGregor
                                 -McGovern campaign
                                     -$1,000,000 bond
                                         -Security at dinner and hotel
                                           -Dole
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                     NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                     Tape Subject Log
                                       (rev. Nov-03)

                                           -California election headquarters staffer [Gordon
                                           Luce]
                                         -McGovern campaign response
                -Compared to Watergate
                -Telephone from McGovern headquarters
                -Press coverage
                    -Bond
                    -Troops
                -Haldeman’s strategy
                -Mobilized numbers
                    -San Francisco
                         -Evidence of McGovern involvement

Charles W. Colson entered at 12:47 pm.

                 -Image conveyed
                 -The President’s supporters
                        -Tactics
                        -Billings, Montana
                             -Signs
                             -Reaction from McGovern supporters
                                      -Reporter inquiry
                        -McGovern campaign
                             -Factory tours
                                      -Columbus, Ohio
                                        -News summary
                                        -Nichols-Seymour [?][sp?]
                        -Tactics
                             -Signs
                             -Shouting, heckling


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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
[Personal returnable]
[Duration: 2m 48s     ]


END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1

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                    NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                   Tape Subject Log
                                     (rev. Nov-03)

      1972 election
           -Aerospace industry
                -Orr Kelly article
                    -Colson’s conversation with the Defense Department
                    -Thomas V. Jones
                          -Forthcoming conversation with Haldeman
                    -Willard F. Rockwell, Jr.
                          -Forthcoming conversation with Haldeman
                               -Plant manager
                    -Union man quote
                          -Lockheed
                               -Business support for Republicans
                                    -Unions
                    -Tom Jones
                          -Reason for support
                               -McGovern
                -Political sophistication
                -Federal aid
                -Building trades presidents
                -Thomas W. ("Teddy") Gleason
                -Letters of support
                    -Grumman president’s 1968 letter to supervisors
                    -Jones
                    -Melvin R. Laird
                -Press inquiries
                    -Handling
                    -North American Rockwell official [Dana Williams?]
                          -Political affiliation
                          -Quote
                               -Congress
                -North American Rockwell
                    -B-1
                          -Congressional fight
                -Kelly article
                -[Williams?]
                    -Harvard University School of Business

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2
[Personal returnable]
[Duration: 3m 25s     ]
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                                   Tape Subject Log
                                     (rev. Nov-03)


END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2
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      1972 election
           -Labor
                -Legislation
                    -Policies
                    -Pro-labor
                    -George P. Shultz
                    -National defense
                    -John G. Tower
                    -James J. Davis-Robert L. Bacon Act
                    -Right to work supporters
                    -Shultz’s recent meeting
                    -President’s role
                         -Analogy to blacks


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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3
[Personal returnable]
[Duration: 5m 26s     ]


END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3

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      1972 election
           -Demonstrations
                -The President's forthcoming trip to California
                    -News coverage
                        -Handling of demonstrators
                             -San Francisco police
                -McGovern supporters
                    -Telephone calls from McGovern headquarters
                       -Los Angeles Times reporter inquiry
                           -Unknown person
                       -Democratic operation
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                    NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                    Tape Subject Log
                                      (rev. Nov-03)

                           -Shutdown and move
                       -Ronald W. Reagan
                       -Gordon Luce
                       -McGovern supporters
                           -Evidence
                      -Dinner
                           -Reagan
                           -Leslie T (“Bob”) Hope
                    -Handling demonstrators
                       -Los Angeles police
                       -Republican National Convention
                           -Louis P. Harris poll
                      -Disruptions
                     -The President’s supporters


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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 4
[Personal returnable]
[Duration: 2m       ]


END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 4

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      1972 election
           -Support for the President
                   -Compared to Lyndon B. Johnson
                        -Accomplishments
                        -Successor to John F. Kennedy
                        -Barry M. Goldwater
                        -Majority Leader in Senate
                              -Dwight D. Eisenhower
                   -Interviews
                        -Hamtramck, Michigan
                            -International relations
                                 -The Soviet Union the People's Republic of China [PRC]
                   -Joseph P. Tonelli
                        -View of communism
                   -Kakuei Tanaka's trip to Peking
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                        NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                        Tape Subject Log
                                          (rev. Nov-03)

                          -Chou En-Lai
                          -Relation to the President's PRC visit
                              -Protocol similarity
                          -The President’s view
                          -US public interest
                          -Images
                                -Relation to the President’s PRC visit
                                     -Publicity
                                           -Timing


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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 6
[Personal returnable]
[Duration: 9m 45s     ]


END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 6

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Alexander P. Butterfield entered at 1:24 pm.

       Correspondence

Butterfield left at 1:25 p.m.


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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 7
[Personal returnable]
[Duration: 6m 53s     ]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 7

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The President, Haldeman and Colson left at 1:31 pm.
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                                      Tape Subject Log
                                        (rev. Nov-03)